Jury in Peter Nygard trial deadlocked

The decide in Peter Nygard’s sexual assault trial is urging the jury to maintain deliberating after they requested how you can proceed if they’ll’t attain a unanimous determination on one of many counts.

The jury, which has been deliberating since late Wednesday afternoon, additionally requested the decide Friday night to outline a “vital” period of time because it pertains to illegal confinement. 

Justice Robert Goldstein instructed them that, on this case, a major time period means it’s greater than momentary and “considerable,” with no minimal requirement.  

Nygard, the 82-year-old founding father of a now-defunct girls’s vogue firm, has pleaded not responsible to 5 counts of sexual assault and one depend of forcible confinement in alleged incidents starting from the Nineteen Eighties to mid-2000s.

5 complainants have testified that they have been invited to Nygard’s Toronto headquarters underneath pretences starting from excursions to job interviews, with all encounters ending in a top-floor bed room suite the place they alleged they have been sexually assaulted.

Nygard testified in his personal defence and denied all 5 of the ladies’s allegations, saying he didn’t recall assembly or interacting with 4 of them. 

The decide instructed the jury on Friday that they need to maintain deliberating with an open thoughts with a purpose to attain a unanimous determination on all counts. 

The jury has retired for the day and is scheduled to renew deliberations at 10 a.m. on Saturday.